Certain scents can cause a rush of feelings — even if you don't always remember why.

Who needs nature when you can have virtual reality windows that simulate any setting with the flick of an iPhone app?

Nintendo gets the lowest score on the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for its failure to address e-waste or cut CO2 emissions.

Merlin the dolphin is the first animal to get an iPad, and he's using it to teach humans about dolphin communication.

Sustainability played a key role at this year's CES with both the CEA and Bosch donating materials and funds to Habitat for Humanity green building efforts.

Invention start-up Quirky and GE launch the Aros Smart Air Conditioner, a window unit with added brains and good looks.

Famed naturalist and conservationist John Muir was so much more than the father of our national parks.

A storm chaser captured stunning clear video of a perfect tornado in Wyoming.

A wildlife corridor in Brazil's Atlantic Forest will help animals like the golden lion tamarin thrive in its preferred environment.

A team of veterinarians use tilapia skin as a healing bandage on their paws.

Refuge protectors weigh in on the shutdown's impact.

A street dog named Mera tagged along with a expedition and climbed 23,389-foot Baruntse, a mountain in Nepal.

Obama chooses Portuguese water dog for the White House. Finally. Now, let's go turn the presidential pooch green.

Organic, vegan and even kosher dog treats that'll make your dog's tail wag.

Cozy up over the holidays with one of these seven throw blankets for around the house made from a variety natural and renewable fibers.

Trust Chanie Kirschner when she says you can't go wrong with flowers and chocolate -- organic or free trade, of course.

Starting June 2011, beauty products making 'organic' claims will have to meet the same certification standards as food products at Whole Foods.

Websites that end with .organic will go through a verification process before they can go live.

Taking fish antibiotics instead of human drugs is a creative solution when money is tight, but it could lead to dangerous consequences.

When you want a good, sustainable, quick burger and fries, the Shake Shack is a great option. The Shake Shack is a growing chain of restaurants that started as

McDonald's adopts the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue ecolabel for its Filet-O-Fish. Will high demand for the sandwich create an overfishing problem?

Even dining out for lunch twice a week can really add up.

While "Million Dollar Baby" earned critical acclaim and a Best Actress Oscar for Hilary Swank, it also took a toll on her health.

Each year the Environmental Working Group ranks supermarket produce by its pesticide load, the worst are known as the Dirty Dozen.

Environmental Working Group’s latest Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce assists consumers in reducing the pesticides they consume in their diets.

Even if you take the energy and water it takes to build a dishwasher into account, it still beats washing by hand.

Shock Top saves cheeky/ingenious conservation startup Drop-A-Brick from sinking.

State legislators in Colorado are working to make it legal for residents to harvest rainwater for irrigation.

From frustrating voice recognition to built-in apps, consumers either don't know they're there or can't figure them out. But relief is in sight.

New books says, 'In the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century and before.'

As our old desktops proved, separating the computer from the peripherals is a good idea.

Computers can't solve this chess problem. Can you?

By creating mini-tornados using adjacent counter-spinning vertical turbines, WindHarvest International hope to revolutionize the productivity of wind power.

The Harvard University endowment fund lost $10 billion in 2009. Unable to dump toxic investments, the university had to find new ways to recoup this 27 percent

Test your knowledge of where products come from and find out if you're a savvy consumer by taking this Made in the USA quiz.

Get an in-depth look at the process of making organic cocoa beans into chocolate bars.

H&M is the most ethically minded of the cheap clothing stores, but it still promotes virtually throwaway retail. What's a conscious shopper to do?

Forthcoming documentary follows movement to link poor growers with roasters and consumers.

Some experts are predicting that you may have to spend more on chocolate in the future. Here are some things to consider.

I do support fair trade products, but sometimes I wish I didn't.

Made with almond milk, these new ice cream flavors from Ben & Jerry's pack some surprises.

Researchers studying chimps that like to throw rocks at certain trees in West Africa are getting clues about the purpose of this behavior.

This serene video from Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a large herd of elk running across the landscape in Colorado.

A food cart that uses real food ingredients like grass-fed beef, tallow and coconut milk is a winner in this household.

FarmedHere, a new 90,000-square-foot indoor farm, just opened in the suburbs of Chicago and is now the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Korean scientists create energy-saving windows that reflect heat in the summer and absorb it during the winter.

With these free or cheap apps, you can drive safely, park your car without circling, find cheap gas, and locate repair shops you can trust.

Greening the urban environment is important. Sticking a roof garden on a moving bus is an odd way to do it.

The tongue-in-cheek campaign, courtesy of 350.org, proposes naming storms after climate change deniers.

I was recently taking a shower in my bathroom when I looked up and noticed what I think was black fuzz and dots growing on my ceiling! Why does mold seem to lik